Chance or Destiny....Part 6...(7) cont....

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All that glitters is not gold' goes a popular saying,seeing Alhaji drive round in his latest car begged a lot of questions but alas no one was brave enough to ask him,even the landlord association that had been harassing us in his absence all kept mute.We learnt the association was thinking of filing a petition against him but Alhaji seemed not to care and the way he started relating with our friends and joining our numerous activities one would think he was a student also apart from his big pot belly.

Well,Uche appraised us of the fact of 'upping' our game and it was time to strike,we were inexperienced as far as killing of local goats was concerned but Obi kept on assuring us that he would handle that part.We had to be very discreet,we had done our survey a night before and we already knew that most of the goats in the area usually stray into a particular uncompleted building just a street behind us  for short naps and regurgitating.The site was overgrown with bushes and weeds.
That night we all had our boots on  and Obi had his touch ready,we were set to go at exactly 12pm,this was  serious business we dare not get caught.

'All man don set?'.........Obi asked
'Make we waka'........i interjected......i knew Obi likes being the leader of things like this.The job was to be carried out by Obi and i,Uche would stay as guard and whistle if anything pops up.

Obi and i moved stealthily through the dark street armed with a nylon full of salt,this is to be put in the goat's mouth just in case it starts to bleat,it will concentrate on licking the salt instead.Still we had to be very careful not to run into the local vigilantes responsible for the security of the area while bringing the goat back to the house.

Our objective was ,catch,bind and transport.

Obi struck a conversation.
'Omo,if that Alfa wey dey stay our house show face when we bring in the four wheeler wetin we go do?
'Make we wait till then'..i replied
'omo,if he wan raise alarm ,we go arrange am o '......Obi snarled in the darkness
'Till then jor'......i wanted to concentrate on the job at hand,i knew Obi had the propensity of solving  issues with violence.

We got to the uncompleted building without any incidence,the place was pitched dark but we had already combed the area the previous night and we knew the room where all the goats usually sleep.We entered the building and moved quickly and quietly so as not to startle the herd.We used the torch lights to blind the goats momentarily.

Obi spotted one big fat she goat,signaled to me to cut off it's escape...

we moved in.....

Obi grabbed the neck as the rest of the goats scattered,he proceeded to strangle the goat.Obi and the goat struggled for like 20 mins while i was pouring salt in it's mouth to stop it from bleating,eventually the goat stopped moving.Now we had to move it to the house,the goat was quite big and it took us almost a 30 mins to get back to the house because we were being careful not to be seen,we had to take our time.Uche was already so worked up,he broke into a smile when he saw how big the goat was.

'Is it dead,its a she goat sha?'....Uche asked excitedly.
'Yes now,i broke the neck'.....Obi was already showing off.
'Lets close the gate abeg before yawa go gas o'....i brought them back to reality.

We quickly moved the goat into the corridor and closed the only door gate that leads into our side of the house.We all stood looking at the She goat without a clue of the next move.
'Hope say that Alfa never wake o'........i asked
'nope,i no hear any sound from his room'......Uche answered.
'oya ,wey the knife,u sharpen am well?.......
'Omo,we go jam am o if e try anything,because...'......Obi stopped....

All of a sudden Alfa door started opening slowly....

We all froze..........................

Alfa (the muslim cleric) stepped out of the room and we all stood there looking at him,he looked from us to the She goat and back to us and he immediately connected the dots.

'se e fe dumbu e ni?......Alfa asked us if we wanted to slaughter the goat

The three of us nodded in unison like overgrown mumu's

'Biwon se shee ko niyen,e mu obe yen wa'.....Alfa said we were not doing it right and we should hand over the knife to him.

All the three of us jumped up in celebration and we started to hug the Alfa as if we had just gotten a new member into our contraternity clan,we were wrong about him ,this one was Alfa awon boys.

We were still back slapping and shaking the Alfa when we heard.

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ......with a loud noise

Everybody ran helter skelter...falling on ourselves ,trying to escape for dear lives!!!

Obi had failed us!!!!!

THE GOAT WAS ALIVE!!!!!!!